We can't use fertilizer pellets because of how delicate these "toys" are built. The bb is fired with an compress air suction system based on a motor turning gears; which in turn run a piston back, and releasing that piston on a spring to the nozzle to fire.
Anything that's not soild and hard will get deformed or sucked into the cylinder and mess up your gun. And don't start the "hey but there are paintball airsoft gun" thing. They break faster.
There are biodegradable bb as siblings suggests. But on the contrary most are NOT biodegradable. The package says "bio-friendly" which is mis-leading. For some examples of biodegradable bb's check this: http://www.airsoftmechanics.com/reviews.php?aid=15 &page=3
But the problem with bio-bb's are that they are not offered in the same weight-range as the non-bio-bb. Depends how you tune your gun, the wind condition, and the slopes,.25g vs.20g really makes a difference in battles. Another problem is the consistency of the bb's diameter. Bad tolerance = jammed gun. And the hardness of the pellets. Soft pellets or brittle pellets = jammed guns again.
These so called "toys" (I quoted toys cuz they're not really toys hehe) are expensive if you dig deep, and you wouldn't want a frag bb in your piston and gears.
Unfortunately there are too many fools who don't think the same way as we do. They realy think they're just toys eventhough they've seen the damage it can do to a coke can. And whenever we tried to give some sense into the safety issue, they'll put us off and say yeah whatever.
I would not play with anyone like that, at least not to my private games.
Airsoft players live by the #1 strict rule to wear eyes protection at all times. This is global. And he's not "some kid" that just thought cool let's do it.
On the booby trap option though, I would love to shoot a burglar's eyes out.
This This is what happens when you don't have full face protections at around 2 joules, close range.
Being an atheist myself, I completely agree to parent. It's not blasphemy to do science while you're religious. Taking this pofession doesn't mean you're challenging God. You're merely using the capacity God gave you as human beings "to rule this earth". And you should be proud of that, that some of us are doing science.
Not doing anything and attribute everything to Mr. Man however, is wasting his gift for you mate. Use it.
And I am in the exact same position as you're in. Just because I was a web designer and wrote flash people think I enjoyed it. The truth is I enjoy laying out things more than coding arrays.
Designers look at me like I am some kind of hard-coded half breed while developers looks at me like a softcore sissy pooh who can't do recursions.
And yet, I feel completely fine as my current job needs exactly my type of people who knows enough of both that delivers. Will I be a successful graphic designer in the end? I think not. Do I have bills to pay? Well.
lmao. Yeah turn the developers into designers. All you need is a programmable grid for them to make everything orthogonal.
Please, mikeysoft, this move is killing all of us, dev. and design together. I wonder if MS actually asks designers and developers their feeling on this? Does it work?
Being a hardcore FPS'er and an airsofter, I completely agree with the parent. And also want to add to my siblings that:
It's not so much on the pretty cross-hair, or how good a shot you are with real guns. The problem has more to do with how good your strong eye line up with the sight and finally to the target. And how well can you calibrate the nintendo controllers to it.
I am pwn anytime in BF2 for example, but when you're holding a pistol, or a rifle,.2mm off the front sight would shoot way off at 20 feet.
Though that said, I am still buying it just for fishing and tennis, and of course light saber!! omfg!!!11onetwothree
Agreed. Ever wonder why we pwn in CS and stuff but lack the skillz people got for Time Crisis? Or DDR for that matter. Conversely, those that excels at Time Crisis don't necessarily pwn in CS?
Controller calibration and all sorts of fatigue and weirdness of aiming + head position, strong eye, weak eye; is the reason why adjustable sights on guns are invented.
It doesn't apply to me for sure. I grew up without a computer and only my uncle in my whole family has a computer back then. Since he uses it during the day, he let me use it during the nite when he's asleep. But the computer is also situated in his bedroom.
So when I used it I had to be real quiet. And generally, this extends to my steps on creaky wooden houses in canada, the way I close doors, and the way I pour water in a glass. And I still do them since it's a childhood thing.
These peeps will also have a hard time activating my mic and logging me because if my mic is ever one at the stand, it'll give a nice woo woo feedback and I would hear it:) That is if you managed to un mute the mic from the buggy liveware hehe.
It's always good to hear these things in the news. I've always wondered:
What if some chinese magic happen tomorrow and everyone lost the ability to make, print, use, think, smell.. CASH.
What if we lose our concept of money tomorrow? Will the world run as usual?
When you park your car in the gas and fill her up, until it's full, you don't pay cash and nobody demands a price. Will you happily drive off to loblaws and get your grocery for free? Or will you take your red gallon bottle out and fill that with gas you don't need? And then get 12 lettuce you don't eat?
Of course most people will.
Will the entire USA population all of a sudden move to beverly hills, soho, seattle, hawaii, and desert the other "less rich" places? Just because we think it's cool to live in hawaii?
People who're dealing in cash jobs will lose their job. But will they have bread to eat and water to drink? Can they feed their babies and will Ferrari make cars for us? Will GM go out of business because everyone can have a Bentley for free?
Will JohnC, Sid Meier, and Billy Wright keep making games even if the games doesn't "sell"? I bet they will.
And that made me think whenever I hear news like these. I know it's all trekkie BS, but until the day we arrive, or at least "build" a new world where it isn't governed by the concept of cash, that we can do something really powerful and huge. And not even 4Frontiers are up to it, yet.
Ok whatever, let's supposed the landing is real which I still can't confirm until some powerful telescope can show me the flag.
If it was real, this will be so cruel to the astronauts that risked their life bringing us the footage. Have some respect! The training and nasty old equipment they had is no fun to be in. It's cramped and the cockpit prolly stinks. Would you like to risk your life, and do the same for humanity as them?
People who say it's a hoax, please show me a pic that there's in fact no flag on the moon. I am dying to see it.
Well I am from and currently am in hong kong. Why do they talk about the dark cloud and suing people not in that cloud? Let me tell you why?
It's because you shouldn't take their words seriously. Our government (1 word oxymoron) is known to not keeping their words. They speak out of their asses. When they say something and do something else it's completely normal and the majority here will just ignore it like most of us do. Ask any honkies if they give a bleep about this topic and they'll prolly tell you, "What you say? Main screen turn on!". Nobody cares.
Almost 99% of public announcement where an official takes a stand towards a subject, it's all from adhoc PR and not research. We don't research.
for a real good time, put a pipe bomb in front of a forcefield door, activate the forcefield and stay behind it so your buddy can see you. stand still he'll come at you unaware of the pipe bomb cuz you look innocent, then he shoots you and the forcefield blocks it, you press the butt ton. oops lol.
I swear the rockets in Doom is still the best weapon so far in terms of FPS's. I still cannot find another wep in antoher game that gives you the same impact both on the launching and receiving end.
I know exactly what you mean by "pissing your buddy off". Modern games don't let me do that anymore. The weapon and death impact is less thick and less funny. Remember the sound he makes when you kill a doom space marine? There're 2. Man that was funny.
Well it's not like I have the money anyway but I kept wondering if the passengers are allowed to bring bananas and m&m's. I've always wanted to do that. Suck a glob of H2O in zero G. Oh man that's so phallic!
What the hell are you talking about? Have you ever jerked off before? Touching oneself is totally different from being touched by someone else mate. I learned that in church.
This is exactly my feeling when I said I wanted "something to happen" to us during our lifetime. But until I read your post I never knew the urge but what you said was exactly it.
We need some big things to push us to go do something, or not do something as in stop cutting the god damn forests and making stupid flyers.
I mean our grand parents experienced the war, our parent got to see Armstrong and the invention of TV. Well yse we saw the compact disc but who cares it's just a new media. Our generation (I am 31) never seen anything great or any new genre.
Thanks for the info. Appreciate it. Hong Kong's weather is also acting up. Our Christmas gets warmer every year and the typhoon season gets later and later.
I actually want to see something like that, since for now, I don't see a power to reverse what we've done anyway. I would love to see this global warming thing in action and kill everyone. I mean it'd be a nice encounter with something hollywood, something catastrophically pleasing.
And when that begins to happen, I bet there'll still be people trading on wall street. Oh man we're helpless. But I'd love to see humanity at its dumbest.
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We can't use fertilizer pellets because of how delicate these "toys" are built. The bb is fired with an compress air suction system based on a motor turning gears; which in turn run a piston back, and releasing that piston on a spring to the nozzle to fire.
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.25g vs .20g really makes a difference in battles. Another problem is the consistency of the bb's diameter. Bad tolerance = jammed gun. And the hardness of the pellets. Soft pellets or brittle pellets = jammed guns again.
Anything that's not soild and hard will get deformed or sucked into the cylinder and mess up your gun. And don't start the "hey but there are paintball airsoft gun" thing. They break faster.
There are biodegradable bb as siblings suggests. But on the contrary most are NOT biodegradable. The package says "bio-friendly" which is mis-leading. For some examples of biodegradable bb's check this: http://www.airsoftmechanics.com/reviews.php?aid=1
But the problem with bio-bb's are that they are not offered in the same weight-range as the non-bio-bb. Depends how you tune your gun, the wind condition, and the slopes,
These so called "toys" (I quoted toys cuz they're not really toys hehe) are expensive if you dig deep, and you wouldn't want a frag bb in your piston and gears.
Unfortunately there are too many fools who don't think the same way as we do. They realy think they're just toys eventhough they've seen the damage it can do to a coke can. And whenever we tried to give some sense into the safety issue, they'll put us off and say yeah whatever.
I would not play with anyone like that, at least not to my private games.
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Dude,
Airsoft players live by the #1 strict rule to wear eyes protection at all times. This is global. And he's not "some kid" that just thought cool let's do it.
On the booby trap option though, I would love to shoot a burglar's eyes out. This This is what happens when you don't have full face protections at around 2 joules, close range.
Being an atheist myself, I completely agree to parent. It's not blasphemy to do science while you're religious. Taking this pofession doesn't mean you're challenging God. You're merely using the capacity God gave you as human beings "to rule this earth". And you should be proud of that, that some of us are doing science.
Not doing anything and attribute everything to Mr. Man however, is wasting his gift for you mate. Use it.
And I am in the exact same position as you're in. Just because I was a web designer and wrote flash people think I enjoyed it. The truth is I enjoy laying out things more than coding arrays.
Designers look at me like I am some kind of hard-coded half breed while developers looks at me like a softcore sissy pooh who can't do recursions.
And yet, I feel completely fine as my current job needs exactly my type of people who knows enough of both that delivers. Will I be a successful graphic designer in the end? I think not. Do I have bills to pay? Well.
lmao. Yeah turn the developers into designers. All you need is a programmable grid for them to make everything orthogonal.
Please, mikeysoft, this move is killing all of us, dev. and design together. I wonder if MS actually asks designers and developers their feeling on this? Does it work?
Being a hardcore FPS'er and an airsofter, I completely agree with the parent. And also want to add to my siblings that:
.2mm off the front sight would shoot way off at 20 feet.
It's not so much on the pretty cross-hair, or how good a shot you are with real guns. The problem has more to do with how good your strong eye line up with the sight and finally to the target. And how well can you calibrate the nintendo controllers to it.
I am pwn anytime in BF2 for example, but when you're holding a pistol, or a rifle,
Though that said, I am still buying it just for fishing and tennis, and of course light saber!! omfg!!!11onetwothree
Agreed. Ever wonder why we pwn in CS and stuff but lack the skillz people got for Time Crisis? Or DDR for that matter. Conversely, those that excels at Time Crisis don't necessarily pwn in CS? Controller calibration and all sorts of fatigue and weirdness of aiming + head position, strong eye, weak eye; is the reason why adjustable sights on guns are invented.
It doesn't apply to me for sure. I grew up without a computer and only my uncle in my whole family has a computer back then. Since he uses it during the day, he let me use it during the nite when he's asleep. But the computer is also situated in his bedroom.
:) That is if you managed to un mute the mic from the buggy liveware hehe.
So when I used it I had to be real quiet. And generally, this extends to my steps on creaky wooden houses in canada, the way I close doors, and the way I pour water in a glass. And I still do them since it's a childhood thing.
These peeps will also have a hard time activating my mic and logging me because if my mic is ever one at the stand, it'll give a nice woo woo feedback and I would hear it
lol.. *let's read hawkings new book again*
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I like when the asteroid dodged earth cuz it's cracking up with fire. hehe. very nice flash indeed.
It's always good to hear these things in the news. I've always wondered:
What if some chinese magic happen tomorrow and everyone lost the ability to make, print, use, think, smell.. CASH.
What if we lose our concept of money tomorrow? Will the world run as usual?
When you park your car in the gas and fill her up, until it's full, you don't pay cash and nobody demands a price. Will you happily drive off to loblaws and get your grocery for free? Or will you take your red gallon bottle out and fill that with gas you don't need? And then get 12 lettuce you don't eat?
Of course most people will.
Will the entire USA population all of a sudden move to beverly hills, soho, seattle, hawaii, and desert the other "less rich" places? Just because we think it's cool to live in hawaii?
People who're dealing in cash jobs will lose their job. But will they have bread to eat and water to drink? Can they feed their babies and will Ferrari make cars for us? Will GM go out of business because everyone can have a Bentley for free?
Will JohnC, Sid Meier, and Billy Wright keep making games even if the games doesn't "sell"? I bet they will.
And that made me think whenever I hear news like these. I know it's all trekkie BS, but until the day we arrive, or at least "build" a new world where it isn't governed by the concept of cash, that we can do something really powerful and huge. And not even 4Frontiers are up to it, yet.
Ok whatever, let's supposed the landing is real which I still can't confirm until some powerful telescope can show me the flag. If it was real, this will be so cruel to the astronauts that risked their life bringing us the footage. Have some respect! The training and nasty old equipment they had is no fun to be in. It's cramped and the cockpit prolly stinks. Would you like to risk your life, and do the same for humanity as them? People who say it's a hoax, please show me a pic that there's in fact no flag on the moon. I am dying to see it.
Winamp AVS with weed is the best. OMFG you can feel your veins jumping.
Well I am from and currently am in hong kong. Why do they talk about the dark cloud and suing people not in that cloud? Let me tell you why?
It's because you shouldn't take their words seriously. Our government (1 word oxymoron) is known to not keeping their words. They speak out of their asses. When they say something and do something else it's completely normal and the majority here will just ignore it like most of us do. Ask any honkies if they give a bleep about this topic and they'll prolly tell you, "What you say? Main screen turn on!". Nobody cares.
Almost 99% of public announcement where an official takes a stand towards a subject, it's all from adhoc PR and not research. We don't research.
at least be given sufficient opportunity to be happy with themselves.
I have plenty of opportunities to be happy with myself, thank you. In fact, I am happying with myself right now!
for a real good time, put a pipe bomb in front of a forcefield door, activate the forcefield and stay behind it so your buddy can see you. stand still he'll come at you unaware of the pipe bomb cuz you look innocent, then he shoots you and the forcefield blocks it, you press the butt ton. oops lol.
I swear the rockets in Doom is still the best weapon so far in terms of FPS's. I still cannot find another wep in antoher game that gives you the same impact both on the launching and receiving end.
I know exactly what you mean by "pissing your buddy off". Modern games don't let me do that anymore. The weapon and death impact is less thick and less funny. Remember the sound he makes when you kill a doom space marine? There're 2. Man that was funny.
Well it's not like I have the money anyway but I kept wondering if the passengers are allowed to bring bananas and m&m's. I've always wanted to do that. Suck a glob of H2O in zero G. Oh man that's so phallic!
What the hell are you talking about? Have you ever jerked off before? Touching oneself is totally different from being touched by someone else mate. I learned that in church.
This is exactly my feeling when I said I wanted "something to happen" to us during our lifetime. But until I read your post I never knew the urge but what you said was exactly it.
We need some big things to push us to go do something, or not do something as in stop cutting the god damn forests and making stupid flyers.
I mean our grand parents experienced the war, our parent got to see Armstrong and the invention of TV. Well yse we saw the compact disc but who cares it's just a new media. Our generation (I am 31) never seen anything great or any new genre.
I hope the asteroid hit us seriously.
Thanks for the info. Appreciate it. Hong Kong's weather is also acting up. Our Christmas gets warmer every year and the typhoon season gets later and later.
I actually want to see something like that, since for now, I don't see a power to reverse what we've done anyway. I would love to see this global warming thing in action and kill everyone. I mean it'd be a nice encounter with something hollywood, something catastrophically pleasing.
And when that begins to happen, I bet there'll still be people trading on wall street. Oh man we're helpless. But I'd love to see humanity at its dumbest.